Nielsen’s Nook

“Moses wants to describe the wrath of God in such a way that he always leaves a place for repentance by those who eventually  ...”
Martin Luther, Luther's Works, Vol. 9 : Lectures on Deuteronomy, ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald and Helmut T. Lehmann, (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999, c1960), 59 .

No Holiday Dreams for Latest Dead Children

The following is an email correspondence we received from a child advocacy group (http://suncanaa.com/). It is very disturbing and I hope will cut through the platicity of the Holiday Season such that you will consider how the Incarnation of God in Christ Jesus might apply to these children today in your own community. Adoption is especially a Christian motif and would be something quite incarnately Christlike to consider. The correspondence from suncanaa.com begins here:

In song and seasonal sentiment, we think of "visions of sugarplums" and toys in the thoughts of children everywhere awaiting Christmas morning. With Santa on his way, gifts under Christmas trees and families bonding, children worldwide have the same dream.  They should be safe enough to keep hope and themselves alive. This year these children named lost any dreams of teddy bears under the tree or a cuddly puppy that  jump out from wrapped box.  They lost Christmas Present and every Christmas Future they should have been protected to enjoy. There are no more dreams for many.  Those dreams died for children who were neglected to death.  They were officially in the care of their state's child protection unit's agents. Some were returned to the care of violent family members or timid ones with impulsive companions.  Many were in the homes of paid strangers and died at their hands. Far from celebrating safely with family, those children's voices call out from small graves to those who truly care about child welfare  Why does a judge's signature send so many children to die in homes carelessly checked with rare, if any, monitoring? A partial and short list of recent names contains: 
  • Julian Herring 3-year-old
  • Amariana Crenshaw 4-year-old
  • Jordan J. Primus 1-year-old
  • Xavier Simmons 3-month-old
  • Madyson Bogard 4-year-old
  • Jahyr Holguin 5-month-old
  • Matthew Thomas 4-month-old
  • Blake Rupee 14-month-old
  • Faith J. Ray
  • Samantha Dionne Foster 2-year-old
  • Katelynn Stinnett 2-year-old
  • ...... and sadly many...many more
Learn more about them and other Unnecessary Angels at Protected to Death:  http://suncanaa.com Every year, inspired by each next child's death, legislators pass laws, make promises, offer show-stopping budget bills.  Eventually the headlines die down, people resume their ordinary lives, and the only change is in names of the latest victims of the system. Often repeated warnings are conveyed to protection agency staff and others.  Nearly always some relative, neighbor or godparent has begged to rescue the child from known danger.  Why not save a life while saving taxpayers shame and useless costs?  The silence is deafening.  Community support is woefully lacking, perhaps backed off by claims of "confidentiality" even over the awful number of corpses that keep appearing. This is not a Silent Season for the rest of us.  Is there someone to speak for children so that their unfinished lives do not slip silently away?  Dead children cannot form a PAC (political action committee) or hire a ghost lobbyist. If hundreds and hundreds of predictably and preventably dead children is not enough to inspire action, what is?  If you choose not to act, who will?  If not now, when?
Happy Holidays,
Suncana
Concerned professionals and media may learn more at http://www.falseallegation.org or by calling NCADRC at 419-865-0513. Barbara Bryan  - Communications Director  National Child Abuse Defense & Resource Center  Phone : 704-582-1059  Email : BHBryan@aol.com